[Marshall, Texas] The City of Marshall announces the opening of Oak Lawn Municipal Golf Course on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Oak Lawn is a 9-hole course that is owned by the City of Marshall located at 4307 Victory Drive in Marshall. This opening date will allow staff to prepare the course for competitive play.
In order to protect the health of each player and the staff, there are stipulations that must be followed in order to use the facilities at Oak Lawn Municipal Golf Course.
• Oak Lawn will be closed on Mondays and open all other normal business hours.
• The only access to the clubhouse will be to pay fees. No socializing with other players inside the clubhouse.
• Players must maintain social distancing suggested by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of 6’ between individuals not in the same immediate family.
• Only one person is allowed per cart. Two individuals are allowed to utilize the same cart if they are in the same immediate family.
On the course, the City of Marshall requests everyone to follow the CDC guidelines to keep you and those around you safe, and to minimize any possible exposure to coronavirus (COVID-19). At Oak Lawn, workers urge our golfers to heighten their awareness on exposure to surfaces like flagsticks, golf balls, bunker rakes, tees, carts and scorecards. We all need to do our part to respect expert advice and make the right decisions to protect each other.
If you have any questions, please contact Stormy Nickerson at (903) 934-7995. Upon opening, please contact Oak Lawn Municipal Golf Course at (903) 935-7555.
[Marshall, Texas] Mayor Terri Brown has issued a New Declaration of Local Disaster and Public Health Emergency Related to Communicable Disease on May 6, 2020. The declaration shall continue in effect until the Marshall City Commission terminates its consent to the continuation of this declaration or until the Mayor terminates this declaration, whichever occurs first. This declaration is a direct reflection of Executive Order GA-21 issued by Governor Greg Abbott on May 5, 2020.
Effective at 12:01 a.m. on May 8, 2020, these local orders allow the opening of hair salons, nail salons, cosmetology salons, barbershops, and tanning salons. Governor Abbott issued the following provisions in GA-21 in order for these facilities to be open.
• One customer per stylist.
• The appointment system is requested.
• If allowing walk-ins, customers are allowed to wait inside only if they are keeping six feet of separation.
• There must be six feet of separation between all operating work stations.
• Wearing facemasks is strongly recommended.
The current declaration also issued the opportunity for the opening of swimming pools on May 8, 2020, under the provisions listed below.
• Indoor swimming pools may operate at up to 25 percent of the total listed occupancy of the pool facility.
• Outdoor swimming pools may operate at up to 25 percent of normal operating limits as determined by the pool operator.
• Local public swimming pools may be allowed to open if permitted by the City of Marshall.
Beginning on May 18, 2020, gyms and exercise facilities will have the opportunity to open with the following stipulations.
• Gyms may operate at no more than 25 percent capacity (this doesn’t include outside activity). Showers and locker rooms must remain closed. Restrooms may be open.
• Disinfect every piece of equipment after use by each patron.
• Customers must wear gloves that cover their fingers at all times.
• Must maintain social distancing of six feet inside the gym.
• If a customer brings equipment, like a yoga mat, sanitize the material before and after use.
This declaration allows manufacturing facilities and office buildings that were not deemed essential services might choose to open in limited ways beginning on May 18, 2020.
• Manufacturers may open with a 25 percent occupancy limitation and staggered workforce, if necessary.
• Manufacturing employees must maintain a six-foot separation.
• Achieve a six-foot separation between employees, or the employer must use controls like Plexiglas between work stations.
Businesses located in office buildings may also open on May 18. These businesses may open their offices to either five employees or 25 percent of the workforce, whichever is greater, provided that employees maintain appropriate social distancing.
GA-21 and this declaration have clarified the position on attending weddings and funerals in the State of Texas. Wedding and funeral venues and the services required to conduct weddings; provided, however, that for weddings held indoors other than at a church, congregation, or house of worship, the facility may operate at up to 25 percent of the total listed occupancy of the facility. Wedding reception and funeral services for facilities that operate at up to 25 percent of the full listed occupancy of the facility; provided, however, that the occupancy limits do not apply to the outdoor areas of a wedding reception or outdoor wedding receptions.
The City of Marshall “New Declaration of Local Disaster and Public Health Emergency” dated May 6, 2020, the City of Marshall maintains the requirement for food establishments within the city limits to have all employees wear a face mask at all times. Separate employees must perform cash handling functions and food serving function.
In providing or obtaining essential services or reopened services, individuals and businesses should follow the minimum standard health protocols recommended found at www.dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus. As COVID-19 positive tests continue to rise, residents should implement social distancing, work from home if possible, use recommended hand sanitizing, maintain environmental cleanliness. Individuals are encouraged to wear appropriate face coverings, but no jurisdiction can impose a civil or criminal penalty for failure to wear a face covering.
The City of Marshall will perform inspections to verify the proper implementation of all policies and procedures. Failure to comply with any of the mandated provisions of this Order constitutes an imminent threat to public health. Per Texas Government Code §418.173, a person who knowingly or intentionally violates this Order commits an offense punishable by a fine up to $1,000.00, confinement in jail for a term not exceed 180 days. Each violation shall constitute a separate offense.
Best practices to prevent the spread of COVID-19 include:
1. Restrict physical contact and publicly used areas.
2. Maintain Social Distancing with a safe distance of six (6’) feet between all individuals.
3. Every person shall avoid large gatherings.
4. Residents shall not visit nursing homes, retirement, or long-term care facilities unless to provide critical assistance.
5. Regularly wash hands with warm soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
6. Avoid touching eyes, nose, or mouth.
7. If soap is not available, use at least a 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
8. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. All persons should remain in the house if one person in the home exhibits symptoms.
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Meanwhile, while we are getting goid at isolating, let’s take a hard look at reality.
Reality 1: The debt and deficit are at record levels, thanks to the Trump/GOP tax cuts, which made the rich richer, big companies more profitable and allowed top management to get record big bonuses.
Reality 2: With the debt and deficit at already record levels in 2017, cutting taxes only increased the debt and deficit, as did borrowing money for stimulus money.
Reality 3: Trickle-down economics has never worked and never will.
Reality 4: The unemployment figure, thanks to the pandemic, slow response by the federal government and chaotic response on all fronts when the problem was finally acknowledged, is approaching that of the Great Depression.
Reality 5: With millions out of work, less income taxes (much less!) are being collected.
Reality 6: The bipartisan stimulus money had enough loopholes and negligible oversight to guaranteed a big slice of the funds went to BIG businesses, BIG farmers and BIG special interest firms and GOP donors.
Reality 7: Money for pressing needs for American citizens — rural health care, fragile bridges across the nation and highway infrastructure.— will be non-existent because of realities listed above.
Reality 8: This administration and its party faithful are more concerned about stock market numbers and election poll numbers than in saving lives.
Reality 9: The officials of the Trump regime are more concerned about kowtowing to the president than in doing the right thing for the citizens of this nation and the world.
Reality 10: This president and his pride of lackeys will go down in history as the most unconscionable, corrupt, unempathetic, and malignantly ignorant administration in this nation’s history.
Reality 11: What else should we expect when the country is in the hands of a sixth-grade bully who enjoys publicly ridiculing anyone who disagrees with him with derogatory nicknames — Fat Jerry, Pocahontas l, Sleepy Joe, Little Marco, etc. — and who is the definitive expert on every subject from space travel to the stock market to response to a pandemic and the proper treatments and medicines with which to combat it to the psychology of male/female relationships.
Looking with a non-critical eye, there are those who claim this country is blessed.
Reality 12: And, with those citizens, President Trump is well pleased.
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By Ron Munden – May 6, 2020
I recently scanned a set of photographs I shot of a People’s Park march while attending the University of California, Berkeley. I decided to google “people’s park Berkeley”. Reading these articles brought back a lot of old memories – things that I have not thought about in many years. I decided to write them down.
I attended Berkeley in 1968, 1969, and 1970 – some part-time and some full-time. There were protests on campus during all those years but 1969 was the most interesting and as it turned-out the most dangerous. Here is what I remember.
First, I was never a protester. Although by 1969 I had decided that the US could not win the Vietnam war and we needed to get out, the Navy was paying me to go to school so I did not think I should spend time protesting. While I was a civilian, I thought I should act like the naval officers I knew and keep my thoughts to myself and support the current policies of the United States government.
Second, I considered myself a street photographer. By this time, I had photographed war protests at UT Austin, Klu Klux Klan parades, Hell’s Angles and Black Panther events. So, if there was a protest and I was in the area I was probably going to be at the event.
It seems like 1969 was a continuous set of protests at Berkeley.
Early in the fall of 1968 some black group was always protesting something. The details are not important. All that is important is that their method of protesting was blocking students from walking through Sather Gate. They formed a line, linked arms and would not let people pass.
I found out about this when I tried to walk through Sather Gate on my way back to the Naval Architecture building. I was stopped and told that I could not pass. Since I had come to campus from the shipyard I was dressed in slacks, a sports shirt and dress shoes. I turned around and found another way to get back to the Naval Architecture building.
I was 25 years old at the time and not very mature. I did not want any black, white or green guy telling me I could not go though that gate. When I got back to my apartment that night, I told the story to a friend that lived in the apartment above me. He said he might could help me out.
The next time I went to class I wore my new outfit – blue jeans, a leather jacket and steel-toed boots.
I did get stopped again and was told I could not go though the gate. I said, “I’m going through the gate.” In the short pause that followed I calculated the trajectory of my steel-toe boot into the exposed shin of the guy immediately in front of me. But the line parted and I walked through. I never got to try out my new boots.
This protest ended in a week or so but my new outfit began my only outfit on days I was on campus. Little did I know at the time, but the campus was about to become a war zone.
War protests began to increase at the beginning of 1969. From what I saw there was a lot of yelling and foul language but no weapons on the part of the students. I never knew what provoked the escalation on the part of the police but suddenly there was police officer presence on campus. As I recall they were state troopers. Tear gas was used by the police. I can state that as a fact because I was present when it happened on more than one occasion.
Then came the helicopter. Many reports say it was tear gas. I think it was pepper spray. It makes no difference because both caused burning eyes and a runny nose. Also helicopters tear gassing people is an imprecise science. They couldn’t control where the wind carried the gas. So, you could be sitting in class and your eyes would start burning because the gas would have gotten into the ventilation system for the building.
And then came People’s Park.
People’s Park was one square block of land located a couple of blocks off campus. The land had been vacant for years. A group of locals constructed a swing set and a couple of other structures on the property. It was known as hippie park and then became People’s Park. Everything was going fine until the University announced they were going to build a parking garage on the property. There were protests and the police came down with a hammer.
I never understood why things escalated so quickly until recently. The article, “The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969” provided the best explanation I have heard. The article is now posted on the website.
Anyway, Governor Ronald Reagan ordered out the National Guard and they came on campus. Now it was the National Guard that was blocking Sather Gate and this was really scary.
I know military discipline when I see it. The security for Mare Island Shipyard was provided by Marines so there was a Marine barracks on the base. I saw military discipline every day.
The California National Guard in 1969 was mainly comprised of guys who signed up so they could avoid the draft and going to Vietnam. They were the keystone cops and in no way resembled a military unit. This is the group that Reagan sent onto campus with live ammunition and fixed bayonets.
Let me make my point.
One day I was trying to get back to the Naval Architecture building and I found the path blocked by about 25 National Guardsmen with rifles and fixed bayonets. I walked up to see why the route was blocked. About 10 yards in front of the National Guard there was a group of four guys yelling at them. About 5 yard behind the four guys was a group of students looking on just like me.
One of the loudmouths make a particularly distasteful comment to one of the National Guard. They broke formation and charged the loudmouth with fixed bayonets pointed at the loudmouth. Wisely, the loudmouth breaks and runs as do the other three loudmouths and the students behind them.
By this time, the other 24 Guardsmen have all broken formation and are going in all directions chasing students. When I noticed a Guardsmen moving toward me, I exited stage right with him in pursuit. At 25 I was still a good sprinter. Even in my steel-toed boots I left him in the dust.
Another day trying to get through graduate school.
With this as background
When I heard that the People’s Park protest had scheduled a march for Saturday, I thought there would be more confrontation between the protesters and the state troopers/National Guard – a perfect photo op.
Armed with my Nikon F and as much film as I could afford, a friend and I went to Berkeley to shoot.
Wow! I was surprised. Overnight the mood of the protesters had changed. They were the hippy flower children I had met in Haight Ashbury in 1967. There was no yelling at the police. When a marcher would pass a policeman they would hand him a flower. When a marcher passed a National Guardsman some marchers put the stem of a flower in the barrel of the rifle being careful not to hurt themselves on the fixed bayonet.
This is the People’s Park march I photographed on that Saturday in 1969.
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This material was taken from a 2019 article in The Guardian. It serve at background to my photo gallery “People’s Park – 1969.”
On 4 May 1970, the Ohio national guard shot at hundreds of students protesting against the invasion of Cambodia, wounding eight and killing four. Kent State was seared into the national consciousness. The US government had authorized the killing of its own (white) children.
But what many might not know is that a year earlier in Berkeley, California, police opened fire with buck and bird shot on a large crowd of young protesters seeking to keep open People’s Park, an impromptu community garden on land UC Berkeley wanted to use. Fifty people were hit.
James Rector, a 25-year-old visitor from San Jose, was killed. Alan Blanchard was blinded. Donovan Rundle was shot point blank in the stomach and almost bled to death. After two dozen surgeries, he would live with chronic pain for the next 50 years.
“Bloody Thursday”, 15 May 1969, was the day the Vietnam war came home. The streets of Bohemian Berkeley, the New Left’s west coast HQ, became a bloody war zone. Martial law was declared, a curfew imposed and national guardsmen with unsheathed bayonets and live ammunition occupied the town. A military helicopter doused the campus with tear gas. Many members of the Alameda county sheriff’s department had just come home from Vietnam. Some later admitted that they treated antiwar students like Viet Cong.
If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with, no more appeasement — Ronald Reagan
This pivotal event in 60s history comes back to life in an excellent new oral history, The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969,by Tom Dalzell. The book recounts the chaotic 40 days and nights from 20 April to 30 May 1969 with detail that reads like a gut punch. A large-format book, lavishly printed with hundreds of never-before-published color photographs, it is a hybrid oral-visual history that reads like watching a documentary.
People’s Park evokes haunting memories of Kent State.
Republican governors in California and Ohio were running re-election campaigns and rallying their base by demonizing the student movement. The chancellors of UC Berkeley and Kent State were out of town on the days of the shootings, contributing to disorder, handing law enforcement greater rein.
In his foreword to People’s Park, Todd Gitlin explains that California’s governor, Ronald Reagan, ran his 1966 campaign on making welfare “bums” go back to work and cleaning up “the mess in Berkeley”. By the time he was running for re-election he had all but granted the national guard and law enforcement officers permission to shoot to kill: “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with, no more appeasement.”
My last thought before the shot was that you should never point a gun at someone — Donovan Rundle
Describing campus protesters a year later, the Ohio governor, James Rhodes, echoed Reagan, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew: “They’re worse than the brownshirts and the communist elements … They’re the worst type of people that we harbor in America.”
The stories Dalzell elicits from Berkeley shooting victims are eerily similar to stories Kent State victims told me when I interviewed them for my own oral history, Witness to the Revolution. Rundle told Dalzell the chilling story of being singled out by a shotgun-toting Alameda county sheriff’s deputy:
My last thought before the shot was that you should never point a gun at someone. In a split second before I was hit I prayed that the shot was rock salt. He aimed so carefully that I could have hit the deck in time to save myself but I didn’t even imagine that he would shoot. He gave no prior warning of any sort, nor any order to move on. It felt like I’d been hit in the gut with a sledgehammer. The buckshot used on me was packed in a 12-gauge shell that holds nine double-aught pellets. Each is about the size of a .32 caliber bullet. I was shot in the gut with five or six of these.
Dean Kahler, who has spent 49 years in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down after being shot on the Kent State campus by the Ohio national guard, told me:
I was in the practice football field when they turned, and lowered their weapons. I thought, ‘Oh my God, they’re going to shoot. Because I’m a farm boy and I’ve carried a rifle and a shotgun, and when somebody makes a deliberate motion like that, and lowers their weapons, pointing directly at you, that’s a sign that they’re ready to shoot … I looked around and there was no place to hide.”
Reminding us how deeply divided the country was in 1969, Rundle recounts being carried into an ambulance when, “Someone heard a bystander say, ‘I hope you die, you fucking hippie.’” Kahler, who like Rundle spent months in the hospital fighting for his life, remembers opening a greeting card that read, “Dear Communist, hippie, radical, I hope by the time you read this you are dead.”
The police and national guard claimed they shot in self-defense. The governors of Ohio and California smeared the unarmed victims. Not one member of law enforcement was convicted of a crime. So much for white exceptionalism.
People’s Park was one square block of turf with a swing set and poetry stand. But it represented much more than the hippie playground political leaders chose to call it. It stood for the social and political aspirations of a generation. As Steve Wasserman writes in his afterword to People’s Park: “The stark and brutal smashing of our hopes was a hammer blow.”
That hammer blow is brought to life in Dalzell’s book, by weaving photography with visceral first-person accounts to bring a reading experience that is beyond the capability of narrative expository writing.
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If you did not watch the Trump Show on Fox News Sunday night, you missed:
— An adjective-laden, discombobulated rantfest where the president consistently showed his inability to answer a question directly.
— Trump put on display his PhD level ability to deflect the most simple question and either turn it into an attack on Barack Obama, China, Democrat governors or the media.
— Twisted the U.S. coronavirus death numbers (68,000-plus) as a positive number rather than as an indictment of this administration’s numerous missteps, l miscalculations and initial slow response.
— Repeatedly lied about actions taken or not taken relating to the pandemic.
— Was superficially off-putting by responding to one distraught woman who was getting evicted by simply stated she would “get a better job.”
The level of his empathy to the death toll, to the cries of help from states, first responders and hospitals is somewhere two digits south of zero.
He is, in a word, an embarrassment, a national disgrace, a clown who is not funny, a political Pennywise who is deviously evil in action, word and deed.
Anyone who still supports this rumbling, bumbling fool has a full share stake in that embarrassment.
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